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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Alexey Adonin Alexey Adonin is a Jerusalem based abstract-surrealist artist. His works have been showcased locally and internationally and are held in private collections around the world. Alexey uses a unique and beautiful technique in which he layers oil paints solely on top of one another to create a mystical, transparent look. Alexey's philosophy stems from the idea that one's reality is made up of what they believe it to be. He uses his art as a platform to express his profound ideas about reality, humanity, and their intertwined behaviors.
An interview by Josh Ryder, curator and Melissa C. Hilborn, curator landescape@europe.com
Hello Alexey and welcome to LandEscape. Before starting to elaborate about your artistic production and we would like to invite our readers to visit https://www.alexeyadoninart.com in order to get a wide idea about your mulifaceted artistic production, and we would start this interview with a couple of questions about your background. You have a solid formal training, and after having graduated from the Glebov State Art College in Minsk, you moved from Belarus to Israel, where you are currently settled: how do those formative years at the College help you to develop your technical skills as well as your creativity?
Thanks so much for your warm welcome! During the USSR's historical events, in the early 90s, my family and I decided to leave for Israel. Those were hard times. People were afraid for their future. Fortunately, I was always busy with my own art world, which seemed to exist separately from all that turmoil and helped me to go through it. As I always stayed away from any political movements that elaborate into a huge mass of people in one place and with one (often crazy) idea, it allowed me to prioritize acquiring artistic skills. In that respect, studying at the college helped me to develop my artistic skills and gave me a large practical base that I appreciate much till today. Classical education has played an important role in the development of my artistic taste. I